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PT · Portugal · Albergaria-a-Velha · 2,233 inhabitants

Wildfires in Alquerubim

Alquerubim, Portugal, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 749 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 21° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 20° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 24° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 22° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 19° · 35 % · 52 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

749
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
2
fires
15
km²

How many times has Alquerubim burned?

Alquerubim has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Pessegueiro do Vouga fire, September 2024, with 512 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 749 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 513 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
749
cumulative ha
513
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Portugal →

Fires that entered Alquerubim

  1. 512 ha Pessegueiro do Vouga fire, September 2024 34% of the municipality · 23,318 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 237 ha Águeda fire, 2 September 2019 16% of the municipality · 1,898 ha in total · 9 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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